GIFT-BOOKS.
PIZ Tell Thee, Dick, Where I Have Been. By Arthur Paterson. Edited by Walter Besant. The Christmas Number of All the Year Round. (Dickens and Evans.)—This is an unusually interesting story,—a spirited and exciting tale of life in tho Far West. It is the story of a rancheman, and is, we understand, founded on fact. The characters are vividly drawn, and none more so than that of Mike Alison, who is a splendid fellow, and not soon to be forgotten. The adventures with Indians and desperadoes are thrilling, and described with a vigour and force that hold one enchained until the end ; the last scene, with the Apache Indians, is especially vivid and exciting. Mr. Paterson has the faculty of attaching hie readers to the characters of whom he is himself fond, even in a short tale. Any one with the least taste for this kind of reading cannot fail to enjoy this story greatly. We commend it strongly to boys, to whom it will be a mod appropriate Christmas present. We fail to find any connection between the title and the story.
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